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What do Wieters and Laird have in common?
Tonight's attendance: 10,548
Matt Wieters has thrown out Carl Crawford trying to steal in the fourth and sixth innings.
How unusual is that?
Only once before has Crawford been thrown out twice in the same game, by the Rangers' Gerald Laird on April 10, 2007.
Chris Tillman was removed with runners on the corners and two outs in the seventh inning. The ovation wasn't very loud, but how much sound can 12 people make in a ballpark this size?
(Everyone got their own vendor, so that's pretty cool).
Tillman threw 95 pitches, 59 for strikes. He allowed five hits, walked one and didn't record a strikeout for the first time in his brief major league career.
He left with a 2-1 lead that held up when Matt Albers struck out B.J. Upton.
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Roch, Those were really great throws, especially the second one, as he had to gun it after Tillman threw a breaking ball and it was a perfect strike to B-Rob. I mean that was a 10/10. The other one was also a thing of beauty, at least a 9.5/10.
So it's back-to-back monster games from Wieters, but Which was better? Was it the 3 hit, DB, HR, 5 RBI game or the 3 RBI, walkoff homer game that included two caught stealings of one of the best SB guys in the game? Tough to choose, but I'm guessing Wieters would say the latter, as it better displayed his all-around game.
Matt not only threw a strike both times, but the ball was waiting for Crawford -- no slap tags needed, thank you.
How close is the 10,548 to the record low?
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The record is 10,130. - Roch